DNA part 1
I think it's so important that we stop focusing on what we DO and start focusing on who we ARE. Because what we do FLOWS from who we are. You can't address the issue through behavior modification. That was the Law's big flaw--it was external and couldn't bring about real, internal, lasting change. But once you know who you are, that's when you begin to BE who you are NATURALLY. That's when what's inside begins to overflow out of you. I guess what I'm trying to say is... it's all bout the genes. All about the DNA. The Divine Nature of the Almighty. It's all about the blood. And look at what Jesus said in John 6:53-54, "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." This is important. Vital. Because you can't experience Jesus' eternal, everlasting, abundant, Resurrection Life until you completely identify with Him. I don't think Jesus was talking about canibalism. I think He was talking about getting Him into us. Past the head, and into the heart. (And I know He's already IN us. I'm talking about receiving the gift we've been given.) And this is in direct contrast to the Old Testament way of looking at things. Jesus said we have to drink His blood if we want to be a part of Him. Genesis 9:4 says, "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." And then Leviticus 17:11 echoes that sentiment, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood..." God didn't want us to partake of THAT blood because He didn't want us to be part of THAT flesh! Just like He warned Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He wanted something better for us. A more excellent way. The blood of the Lamb. The Tree of Life. He wanted us to know who we really were. And that's why He said, "Let there be light" when the heaven and the earth (the mind and the body, US) were dark, and void, and without form. That's why Jesus came at the appointed time to show us who we are, by showing us who God is. Not a distant, angry taskmaster who is always out to get us (which is what the Law of Moses might have you believe), but a loving heavenly Father who is not mad AT us, but mad ABOUT us! He didn't want us to have life... He wanted us to have ABUNDANT life. Don't drink the blood of the flesh. Drink the blood of the Lamb. Don't identify with Adam. Identify with Jesus. 2 Peter 1:4 says what I think I'm trying to say like this, "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." According to Genesis 3:6 the woman found the tree of knowledge of good and evil pleasant to the eyes. She lusted after it. She wanted to be like God and thought that was the way to do it. When in fact she was already like God, and just didn't know it. She tried to earn something that can't be earned. Because, again, it's not about what you do. It's about who you are. It's about partaking of the divine nature. Knowing and believing that God's heart beats with love in our chests, and the blood of the Lamb carries that love throughout the entire the body! (Our individual body and the corporate body of Christ.) Life is in the blood. Our DNA defines who we are. To say it another way: You are what you eat. What you fill yourself with is what will overflow out of you. Love inside comes out!